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Senate Bill S9039

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a competitive emergency mapping grant program

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2025-S9039 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10120
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2801-c, Ed L

2025-S9039 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a competitive emergency mapping grant program which will provide grants to school districts or boards of cooperative educational services to upgrade their floor plans, blueprints, schematics or other maps of their school interior, school grounds and road maps of the immediate surrounding area included in their building level emergency response plans.

2025-S9039 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9039 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9039
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a compet-
   itive emergency mapping grant program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 2801-c
 to read as follows:
   §  2801-C.  EMERGENCY  MAPPING  GRANT PROGRAM. 1. SUBJECT TO APPROPRI-
 ATION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH A COMPETITIVE EMERGENCY  MAPPING
 GRANT  PROGRAM  WHICH SHALL PROVIDE GRANTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BOARDS
 OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO UPGRADE THEIR FLOOR PLANS,  BLUE-
 PRINTS,  SCHEMATICS  OR  OTHER  MAPS  OF  THEIR  SCHOOL INTERIOR, SCHOOL
 GROUNDS AND ROAD MAPS OF THE  IMMEDIATE  SURROUNDING  AREA  INCLUDED  IN
 THEIR BUILDING LEVEL EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANS AS REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH C
 OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE-A OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE,  AND  FOR OTHER SCHOOL SAFETY RELATED PURPOSES AS DETERMINED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER.
   2. DISTRICTS OR  BOARDS  OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES  WHICH
 RECEIVE  FUNDS  SHALL  ENSURE THEIR MAPS ARE IN A FORMAT COMPATIBLE WITH
 SOFTWARE PLATFORMS  USED  BY  LOCAL,  STATE,  COUNTY,  AND  FEDERAL  LAW
 ENFORCEMENT  AGENCIES  THAT  PROVIDE  EMERGENCY SERVICES TO THE SPECIFIC
 SCHOOL FOR WHICH  THE  DATA  IS  PROVIDED  WITHOUT  REQUIRING  SUCH  LAW
 ENFORCEMENT  AGENCIES  TO  PURCHASE ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE OR REQUIRING THE
 INTEGRATION OF THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE TO VIEW  THE  DATA,  AND  COMPATIBLE
 WITH SECURITY SOFTWARE PLATFORMS IN USE BY THE SPECIFIC SCHOOL FOR WHICH
 THE  DATA  IS PROVIDED WITHOUT REQUIRING SUCH SCHOOL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
 AGENCIES TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE OR REQUIRING THE INTEGRATION OF
 THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE TO VIEW THE DATA. SUCH SITE MAPS SHALL BE  VERIFIED
 FOR  ACCURACY  THROUGH  AN  INITIAL AND ANNUAL WALKTHROUGH OF ALL SCHOOL
 BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
   3. IN AWARDING SUCH GRANTS, THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  PRIORITIZE  HIGH
 NEED DISTRICTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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